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One week after launching worldwide, Halo 5: Guardians has made history as the biggest Halo launch and fastest-selling Xbox One exclusive game to-date, with more than $400 million in global sales of Halo 5: Guardians games and hardware, pushing the franchise to over $5 billion lifetime...

Microsoft is just days away from launching its new Xbox One dashboard, and with it comes backwards compatibility. On Thursday, 104 Xbox 360 games will be playable on the Xbox One, allowing owners of Microsoft's new console to play old multiplayer Xbox games with friends that own an Xbox 360. Microsoft previously promised more than 100 titles for the holiday, and now the company has released a list of all the games officially supported.

Nobody was more surprised by Xbox’s fall from grace than Microsoft. In its first eight years, the Xbox 360 established the company as a powerhouse in the games industry, and one of the best options for streaming apps like Netflix, Hulu, and Pandora. As entertainment trended away from physical media and cable subscriptions, the Xbox 360 felt like a test run for Microsoft’s plan to one day control the living room.

As far as set-top boxes go, a home video game console these days typically offers all of the streaming services one could want, plus access to video games like Halo 5: Guardians or Destiny. But Microsoft could be launching a new box in 2016. According to information gathered by Petri IT Knowledgebase, and originally surfaced by Business Insider, Microsoft, the company that built the Xbox One console, is considering launching a smaller, cheaper Xbox at some point in the last half of 2016.

It's not going anywhere, though. Microsoft has stopped manufacturing new Xbox 360 consoles, the company announced today. "Xbox 360 means a lot to everyone in Microsoft," said Phil Spencer, head of Xbox. "And while we've had an amazing run, the realities of manufacturing a product over a decade old are starting to creep up on us." Spencer added that Microsoft "will continue to sell existing inventory of Xbox 360 consoles, with availability varying by country."

To celebrate the excitement of E3 and the upcoming WWE Money in the Bank pay-per-view on June 19, 2K and Xbox are teaming up to deliver WWE 2K16 for free to Xbox Live Gold members all weekend as part of Xbox Live Gold’s Free Play Days.
Starting Thursday, June 16 and running through on 11:59PM PT Sunday, June 19 the free play session allows every Xbox Live Gold Member to experience the hard-hitting excitement of WWE 2K16 with a simple download. And if you’d like to continue the fun after the

A whole new galaxy awaits for you to explore. Mass Effect: Andromeda pushes the boundaries of known space into the next generation, delivering distant star systems with remote and hostile planets ripe for discovery.
Mass Effect: Andromeda - Coming early 2017 to PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One

In less than 24 hours, Microsoft will host its E3 press conference. The software maker is expected to launch a smaller, slimmer version of the Xbox One, and a fresh leak on the NeoGAF forums today is providing our first look at the new console. Sources familiar with Microsoft's Xbox plans had previously told us that the new Xbox One "Slim" would be 40 percent smaller, and the leaked image appears to show a smaller Xbox One in white.

Microsoft's new smaller and sleeker Xbox One S finally has a release date: Aug. 2. Announced at E3 in June, the Xbox One S is Microsoft's most compact Xbox game console yet. Starting at $299 with a 500GB hard drive, the Xbox One S is 40% smaller than the Xbox One, supports 4K UHD resolution and HDR (High Dynamic Range) videos. Even if a game wasn't made for 4K, the Xbox One S can upscale to 4K resolution, Xbox boss Phil Spencer told Mashable.

Before we get into the main reason you are here, why DirectX 12 will not be available at launch next week? Let us take a look at the recommended PC specs you will need to run Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and we find out when preloading will be available on Steam.

Bethesda has announced that Fallout Shelter is now free to download for Windows 10 as a 'Play Anywhere' game alongside the Xbox One. According to the developers, Fallout Shelter has been redesigned to work seamlessly with the Xbox One controller and because of Xbox Play Anywhere all your progress will carry over to your Windows 10 PC as well as your Xbox One and vice versa.

In this generation of console wars, the Xbox One has lagged behind the PS4 in both sales and consumer mindshare. In fact, a January report from games intelligence firm SuperData pegged Microsoft has selling half the number of consoles as Sony. To be frank, Microsoft is getting its ass kicked.

When Microsoft first announced Project Scorpio as an upgraded variant of Xbox One, many began wondering about the possibility of modular consoles. The idea takes from PC and suggests that a time may come when console owners would be able to simply open up their hardware to replace aging components for performance enhancements. In return, a modular console would improve the longevity of the generation and companies like Microsoft would no longer need to bring out a new console every few years.

The big surprise of my first Project Scorpio tech briefing? That's obvious: the fact that Microsoft has managed to push GPU frequencies all the way up to 1172MHz - far higher than anything we've seen from any current-gen console. When the silicon architects first revealed this spec point, I wondered how the hardware team had managed to achieve desktop PC-level GPU clocks in a console-sized form factor. "You've not seen the form-factor yet," replied Microsoft's Kevin Gammill wryly.

For Microsoft and Sony, the future of the console game business just might involve catering to a more enthusiast market, according to research published today by Nielsen Games. While Nintendo seems content banking on its portable Switch device, the owners of the Xbox and PlayStation brands are hoping mid-cycle console upgrades will convince consumers to shell out hundreds of dollars for only incrementally better devices. That could mean fewer consumers buy the latest devices, as the upper end of console market starts to resemble the PC.

Microsoft’s Xbox One X presents an interesting challenge for PC builders. Sure, if you want raw power, nothing beats the PC. But can you put together an Xbox One X equivalent for $500? At that price point (and outside of that golden window of Black Friday sales and stellar combo/bundle deals on PC components), you're pushing the limits of what’s possible, particularly if you want to completely replicate the same experience Microsoft is promising hardcore console fans.

Gaming’s biggest week each year has always been when the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) hits Los Angeles in June. It’s a time when new games are revealed and when the console wars reach critical mass. It’s also when fans and media love to determine winners and losers based on who they believe had the biggest and best gaming announcements.

After the Xbox One X was announced at Microsoft's E3 2017 press conference this week, the company has published video where an engineer puts the console together piece by piece. Watch the video below to see Major Nelson and Xbox Hardware GM Leo Del Castillo assemble the console, starting with the chip at the heart of it at all, before moving on to things like the motherboard, voltage regulators, the power supply, the hard drive, and more.

If Backwards Compatibility has taught me anything, it’s that diving back into the warm waters of nostalgia is still a beautifully fulfilling endeavour. Plus, I’m clearly partial to a cheap game or two. Scrolling through the timeline, I can find many a moment in the Xbox lineage that brings a reminiscent sigh of content from within. It can be easy to forget where these happy thoughts emanated from, what with the pixel-perfect visuals and world maps twice the size of Aruba that come as standard these days.

Will Guillemot’s words come true? It’s probably too early to tell one way or another. What we do know is that Assassin’s Creed Origins is one of the games that will be marketed for Xbox One and specifically for Xbox One X, where it’s been confirmed to run at dynamic 4K with checkerboard rendering and HDR support. It will launch on October 27th on a very crowded day (Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and Super Mario Odyssey are also due on that day).

Microsoft is about to share the last details on the Xbox One X with a press conference ahead of the Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. You can watch it live right here at 12 PM on the West Coast, 3 PM on the East Coast, 8 PM in the U.K., 9 PM in Germany.

There are two sides to the Xbox One X showing at Gamescom 2017. Initially, Microsoft's colossal acreage only seems to play host to a small range of familiar-looking wares. Forza Motorsport 7, Assassin's Creed Origins and Super Lucky's Tale - games we saw at E3 - are joined by an impressive native 4K version of Shadow of War. Aside from the Warner Bros title, there's very little new here to report on.

Razer on Thursday launched an all-new customisable gaming controller for the Xbox One and PC called the Wolverine Ultimate. It comes with an abundance of extra buttons, including a couple of remappable multi-function bumpers, four multi-function triggers plus a Quick Control Panel. It hits international shores sometime in the fourth quarter.

YouTuber DEE BATCH shared some interesting Assassin’s Creed information recently. In his video report from Fan Expo Canada, he said that Ubisoft developers confirmed at the convention to be working on a 1080P@60fps mode for Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox One X console.

The standalone Minecraft themed Xbox One Controllers have been released in the North American region. If you are interested, you can check out the new gamepads with the following links: Creeper Version and Pig Version. You can also take a look at some images of the Minecraft controllers, as well as Amazon’s list of features for both products, below this paragraph...

Even though Microsoft has moved on from the Xbox 360 controller, the United States military still seems to think it is an ideal tool for operating some of the the latest manifestations of the military-industrial complex.

Perhaps with the exception of the Xbox One X, Microsoft’s biggest E3 2017 announcement was the addition of original Xbox backward compatibility. The Xbox One X is still two weeks from release, but the Xbox marketplace has already begun to receive original Xbox games, priced at $9.99 each (though your original discs should also work, if you still have them). And today, IGN reports that the functionality — along with 13 original Xbox games — will be available tomorrow.

First dead in our hearts, and now dead at the manufacturing plant, the Kinect is no longer in production. Microsoft’s experimental motion detecting camera, which first launched in November, 2010, will die off once existing retail stock is sold, Microsoft told the website Fast Co. in an interview.